Despite a government-ordered evacuation amid approaching fighting, most residents in areas around Kharkiv in northeast Ukraine have refused to leave.
Ukraine media say a pair of drone attacks on air bases deep inside Russia were the work of Ukrainian saboteurs backed by intelligence services.Tatiyana Shapavalova, 59, who lives two doors away, boarded an evacuation van along with her neighbor. She thought their part of Ukraine would stay comparatively peaceful after the Russians withdrew from most of Kharkiv province last year, but an Aug. 13 artillery attack proved her wrong.
“We had hoped the Ukrainian army would push the Russians further away, but every day we hear them coming closer and closer,” Shapavalova said.with her 84-year old mother. Her sister decided to stay behind. “They are planning to clean their garden, and then they will maybe go to Kharkiv,” she said from the Red Cross base in Kupiansk.
In the villages closest to the front line, residents have told volunteer Fedulenko that they don’t want to abandon their farm animals. They spend most of their time in basement shelters below razed houses, he said.In Kupyansk-Vuzlovyi. the long war has created an atmosphere that blends the placid and the deadly. The roar of artillery fire sporadically disturbs the soft rustle of leaves in the late summer breeze. Municipal workers diligently mow the lawn next to bombed-out school buildings.
,” Pototska said. Many said they would evacuate if the return of Moscow’s troops appeared imminent but until then would hold on to hope of Ukrainian forces defeating them. Kanivets, Pototska’s friend, sent her 12-year-old son, Yaroslav, to a 10-day summer camp in western Ukraine “to give him a break” from the shelling. The war forced him to grow up very quickly, but “he has friends here, it’s his home, so I think its better to stay,” she said. “He’s not scared.”
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